Zoraida by Egbert Augustus Cowslip
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ePublished by
May 2025
Originally published 1845
Fiction
Author: Egbert Augustus Cowslip
ePublished by
May 2025
Originally published 1845
Fiction
Author: Egbert Augustus Cowslip
Zoraida; or, The Witch of Naumkeag: A Tale of the Olden Time is set in New England during colonial times. This novella-sized work of early American fiction tells the story of an insulted, newly-pregnant, English wife who runs away from her marriage, travels across the ocean to New England, and ends up living in the woods where she is regarded as a witch by both the Indian tribes and the colonists—a label she encourages rather than discourages so people will leave her alone.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and all that.
The credited author, “Egbert Augustus Cowslip, Esq.,” is the pseudonym for a writer named Benjamin Barker, a man whose actual identity is sufficiently opaque, at least to the modern reader, that it hardly warrants disguise.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and all that.
The credited author, “Egbert Augustus Cowslip, Esq.,” is the pseudonym for a writer named Benjamin Barker, a man whose actual identity is sufficiently opaque, at least to the modern reader, that it hardly warrants disguise.